Waxing device



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mm DEVICE Filed March 9, 1959 Zinnentor E-ugz/VE us attorney Patented May 12, 1942 UNITED STATES" PATENT QFF C WAXING DEVICE Eugene Russo, Hollis, N. Y. Application March 9, 1939, Serial No. 260,754

2 Claims.

'This invention relates to means for waxing thread and more particularly to a thread waxing device constructed and arranged to support for rotation a cylinder of wax in position to engage the thread for applying wax thereto.

One object of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive thread waxing device adapted to be readily attached to the head of a sewing machine whereby the thread may be waxed as it passes from the spool or other winding to the needle or stitch forming mechanismv of the machine. This eliminates the necessity for utilizing pre-waxed thread and obviates the disadvantages and objections thereof.

Another object of the invention is to provide a thread waxing device provided with means in unitary relation thereto for preventing the thread from disengaging the wax block or cylinder.

A further object of the invention is generally to improve the construction and operation of waxing devices. 7

The above objects of the invention and other objects which might hereinafter appear are attained in the device disclosed here as a preferred embodiment of the invention. For a full understanding thereof, reference is to be had to the following description considered in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a sewing machine provided with the waxing device embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the waxing de vice;

Fi 3 is a vertical sectional view of the waxing device in position on a spindle of the head of the sewing machine.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, the waxing device In made in accordance with the present invention may be made of any suitable material such as wood or metal and comprises as here shown a disk I2, integral with or secured as ported by. disk .l2 and can rotatelfreely about.

spindle IS. The thread 26 engages wax block 24 at one end thereof between the latter and disk l2. As said thread is moved longitudinally, itcauses the wax block to rotate about spindle I8 50 that the wax block wears evenly and applies wax uniformly to the thread.

As the thread moves in engagement with the wax block, said thread has a tendency to vibrate sidewise or radially of the wax block and to jump out of engagement with the wax block. In accordance with the present invention, provision is made for obviating this difiiculty. For that purpose disk I2 is provided as here shown with flanges 28. Said flanges are disposed in opposed spaced relation, upstanding from the top of disk I2 on opposite sides of spindle l8. It will be apparent that said flanges confine the thread and prevent unintended movement thereof out of encasement with the wax block. As illustrated in Fig. l, the waxing device I0 is mounted on the head H of the sewing machine, preferably in engagement with a spool spindle S or the like with which sewing machine heads are conventionalli provided or which may be secured to the sewing machine head as will be obvious. The thread 26 is supplied from the spool or winding 30, to the thread waxing device Ill and from the latter to the needle 32 of the sewing machine.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that the latter may be embodied otherwise than as here shown and that certain by glue to and at one end of a post or standard M which as here shown is a tubular member provide with a tubular passage or bore 16. Disk I2 is also provided with a centrally disposed spindle l8, preferably in the form of a tubular member or hollow cylinder l8 integral with or secured to the upper surface of said disk. The

passage or bore 20 in spindle I8 is in alignment with passage I6 and also with a central opening 22 in disk I2. Disk I2 is disposed centrally of tubular members I4 and 18, the latter being in axial alignment. It will be understood that the wax block, here shown as a cylinder 24, is supparts may be made.

changes in the construction and arrangement of Therefore, I do not wish to be limited precisely to the present form of the invention except as may be required by the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A thread waxing device adapted to be mounted on the spindle of the head of a sewing machine, said device comprising in unitary relation a support including a disk provided with an opening therethrough and upper and lower tububore of the other tubular member for the reception therein of said machine spindle, the upper side of said disk serving to carry a wax cylinder for rotation about said upper tubular member,

the lower tubular member serving to support said disk above the sewing machine head,'and a circumferentially extending flange 6n the upper surface of said disk in fixed relation thereto and spaced radially of said upper tubular member, said flange terminating in spaced endsdisposed at opposite sides, respectively, of said upper tubular member in the direction of movement of said thread and extending above said upper side of the disk whereby to engage the thread at two points spaced longitudinally of the thread and to hold the latter in engagement with the bottom of the wax cylinder.

2. A thread waxing device adapted to be mounted on the spindle of the head of a sewing machine, said device comprising in unitary relation a support including a disk provided with an opening therethrough and upper and lower tubular members disposed centrally of said disk in fixed relation thereto at the upper and lower sides, respectively, thereof, said tubular members being in axial alignment and each having a bore in registry with said opening of the disk and pro-' viding a continuous bore therewith and with the bore of the other tubular member for the reception therein of said machine spindle, the upper side of said disk serving to carry a wax cylinder for rotation about said upper tubular member, the lower tubular member serving to support said disk above the sewing machine head, and spaced flanges on the upper surface of said disk in fixed relation thereto, said flanges being on opposite sides of said tubular member and spaced radially thereof, each of said flanges terminating in spaced ends disposed at opposite sides, respectively, of said upper tubular member in the direction of movement of said thread and extending above said upper side of the disk whereby the ends of either of said flanges are positioned to engage the thread at two points spaced longitudinally of the thread and to hold the latter in engagement with the bottom of the wax cylinder.

EUGENE RUSSO. 

